American Theravada scholar-monk. Translator of the Majjhima and Samyutta Nikayas.
American Theravada monk, Pali scholar, and translator. Editor of the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka, for over twenty years. Translator of the Majjhima Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya, and Anguttara Nikaya. Founder of Buddhist Global Relief.
The second basket of the Pali Canon — the Buddha's discourses, organized into five great collections (nikayas) preserving over ten thousand teachings.
The earliest complete Buddhist canon — preserved in Pali by the Theravada tradition and committed to writing in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE. Three baskets: discourses, monastic rules, and higher doctrine.
The oldest surviving school of Buddhism — the way of the elders. The tradition that preserved the Pali Canon, the monastic rule, and the path of the arahant across twenty-three centuries from Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia.
